Spring Dallas User Group

The Spring Dallas Users Group will not be meeting this month.  Enjoy the break.

Merry Christmas!

Happy New Year!

We’ll post the 2010 plans soon.

Title:
Spring Roo Quickstart

Abstract:
Spring Roo is the latest, and in my opinion most interesting, product to come from SpringSource.  Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool.  Think AppFuse meets Grails and mix in some Maven and built-in testing tools.

This talk will be an introduction to Spring Roo.  You’ll leave knowing what Roo is, how to use it, and where to go to learn more.

Bio:
Erik Weibust is a Senior Architect with Credera.  Prior to joining Credera, Erik was a member of the Office of Architecture at Countrywide Financial.

Erik has more than 10 years of business and information technology experience.  His career started at Neiman Marcus where he worked on the inventory system and then moved to their online team where he helped with the initial launch of the NeimanMarcus.com web presence.  Erik left the retail business for the high-tech, web-based, hotel travel booking company Pegasus Solutions.  While at Pegasus, Erik gained experience developing and maintaining massively-scalable, clustered Java EE applications that powered the majority of hotel transactions on the internet.  In addition, Erik gained experience in the mortgage industry while working for Custom Credit Systems developing custom mortgage applications, and most recently while working at Countrywide Financial.

Erik has a passion for learning, promoting and teaching Java technologies.  Erik has been active with the Dallas/Fort Worth Java User group (JavaMUG) for over 7 years and currently serves as the elected President.  Erik also started and continues to lead a Java User group that focuses on the Spring Framework (Spring Dallas User Group), a leading, lightweight Java EE framework.

WHEN:
November 18, 2009
* Social - 6:30 PM
* Meeting - 7:00 PM

WHO TO TELL:
Tell your friends, co-workers, and everyone else that is interested in Spring.

WHERE TO GO:
Our meetings are now at the offices of Improving Enterprises. Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. The building doors lock at 7:00 and we will not have anyone to shuttle people around. Please be there before 7:00.

Spring Dallas Users Group Founder / Leader:
–Erik Weibust
-http://erik.weibust.net
-http://twitter.com/erikweibust

Title:
Effectively using IDE plugins for Java EE Applications Using Spring

Abstract:
Developing Java EE applications with Spring or EJB requires lot of boiler plate code. IDEs and other tools e.g. Spring IDE helps alleviate some of the pain. Fast Code Eclipse Plugin can help further. Also other plugins e.g. Implementor, Anyedit, Moreunit etc are also helpful. Capabilities of all these tools will be presented as well some feature of Eclipse.

Bio:
Gautam Dev has almost fifteen years of experience in the IT industry. Gautam is well versed in EJB, spring, JMS, and Hibernate etc. Gautam has worked in companies like Sabre, EDS, Johnson & Johsnson etc. Gautam is the founder of Fast Code Eclipse plugin project. Interestingly, Gautam is not a computer science guy. Gautam did his masters and Ph.D in physics.

WHEN:
October 21, 2009
* Social - 6:30 PM
* Meeting - 7:00 PM

WHO TO TELL:
Tell your friends, co-workers, and everyone else that is interested in Spring.

WHERE TO GO:
Our meetings are now at the offices of Improving Enterprises. Directions and information can be found on our meeting location page. The building doors lock at 7:00 and we will not have anyone to shuttle people around. Please be there before 7:00.

Spring Dallas Users Group Founder / Leader:
–Erik Weibust
-http://erik.weibust.net
-http://twitter.com/erikweibust